WWE Raw star and a former WWE Raw Women’s champion Rhea Ripley who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently talked about how much creative freedom she had while cutting promos on the mic. Needless to say, Rhea is currently one of the top stars of WWE.
Rhea Ripley was introduced to the WWE Universe through the Mae Young Classic tournament and soon after the tournament, she got to sign a professional contract from WWE and started working on the NXT UK. She was pretty famous in the NXT and NXT UK as she won multiple Championships from both development territories of the promotion.
Rhea Ripley Reveals Her Creative Freedom On The Mic
In 2021 she was brought to the main roster for the first time and at WrestleMania 37 she went on to win the WWE Raw Women’s Championship. But after losing the title to Charlotte Flair, she lost her main event status and it was pretty difficult for her to get it back once again.
In 2022, she became a member of the Judgement Day and she turned out to be the most successful star of the faction. She was lifted back to the main event status once again as she went on to win the women’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 and challenged Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 39.
Rhea Ripley who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Richard Deitsch on the Sports Media Podcast where she talked about how much creative freedom she had while cutting promos on the mic. Needless to say, Rhea is currently one of the top stars of WWE. She said;
“It really goes week to week. I’ve had a couple of promos where I didn’t get too much of a say because there were things they wanted to get across. Obviously, they’re like, ‘Yes, you can word it in your own way but we pretty much want it exactly like this.’ It gets to the point sometimes where I’m like, I don’t even know how to reword this because it’s not really the way that I would speak, so I might just say it exactly how it is and just try and put my own twang on it, maybe throw a ‘mate’ in there or a ‘Rhea bloody Ripley’ or something.
“A lot of the time, a lot of the backstages, I get free range. Most of the time, I don’t really read my promos until right before doing them because I don’t want to be stressing about it too much, especially when I’m out there with the boys [Judgment Day]. We go out there and we bounce off each other. We help each other through it. A lot of the time, we just mingle out there.
“We’re just saying random things, hyping each other up and helping each other out. It’s such an art to be able to go out there and just wing it. That’s where the fun comes from and why the fans gravitated towards me and the Judgment Day, especially with our backstages. We go into it knowing we’re going to have fun. ‘Let’s mess with this person a little bit,’ we go out there and start saying things we want to say. Most of the time it’s dumb. Dom will go out there and start talking all prison talk and we’re all hype guys behind him.”
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